America’s Destruction of Iraq by Washington insider Michael M. O’Brien details the origins of radical Islamic terrorism now spreading across the Middle East and North Africa.
The outgrowth of America’s involvement in Iraq, culminating with its March 2003 invasion, is the Islamic State-the most violent terrorist organisation in history.
Michael O’Brien is an outlier: a conservative and former political appointee in the administration of George W. Bush, with an abiding contempt for the political and military mismanagement of the Iraq War, officially referred to as Operation Iraqi Freedom.
A graduate of West Point and former Infantry officer, and a former U.S. government Contracting Officer, O’Brien saw the effects of the Iraq invasion from the inside out-not as a soldier but as a contractor advising the new Iraqi Army and Ministry of Defense on its physical infrastructure, including the acquisition of land and Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) originally built for Coalition forces.
Compounding in outrage, compelling in detail, Michael O’Brien condemns the waste of tens of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars, and the needless loss of American and Iraqi lives.
